May 29, 2025 By Bill Parry An autopsy by the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has determined that a family puppy did not cause the death of a 1-month-old baby girl at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City on Tuesday morning and that the newborn had died from unknown causes. The NYPD… Read more »
May 27, 2025 By Bill Parry A one-month-old girl was killed early Tuesday morning after being mauled by the family dog inside a Queensbridge Houses apartment in Long Island City, police said. Officers from the 114th Precinct in Astoria responded to a 911 call from the infant’s 27-year-old mother just before 6:40 a.m. on May… Read more »
May 16, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who allegedly attacked an F train rider at the 21st Street–Queensbridge subway station in Long Island City on the night of Saturday, May 10. The 24-year-old victim was getting off a southbound F… Read more »
May 6, 2025 By Bill Parry A 66-year-old E train rider was slugged in the face by a stranger he was arguing with in Long Island City during a morning rush hour last month. The victim got into a verbal dispute with the suspect as the train was entering the Court Square-23rd Street subway station… Read more »
May. 1, 2025 By bparry May 1, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria are looking for a gunman who opened fire on Steinway Street, striking a 25-year-old man in the back, during the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26. The shooting went down at the gas station on…
May. 1, 2025 By bparry May 1, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury has indicted an Astoria man on hate crime and other charges for allegedly targeting Immaculate Conception Church on Ditmars Boulevard in a series of disturbing incidents last month, including the desecration of a religious statue and an assault on…
April 30, 2025 By Bill Parry Two career criminals from Brooklyn are charged with attempted murder for shooting an off-duty cop during an attempted carjacking in Long Island City on Sunday morning. Denzel Brown, 29, and Marvin Dankwah, 26, both from the Beach Haven Apartments in Bensonhurst, were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Tuesday… Read more »
April 29, 2025 By Bill Parry By the time Long Island City civic leaders discovered racist and antisemitic graffiti scrawled across the oval at Hunters Point South Park on Monday morning, neighborhood children were already playing on the turf. A park worker quickly removed the graffiti, and now police from the 108th Precinct are searching… Read more »
Apr. 29, 2025 By bparry April 29, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted an Astoria man on charges of manslaughter, assault, and unauthorized practice of a profession for allegedly performing cosmetic surgery without a license in his 35th Street home. The 31-year-old victim, a mother of two young children from Whitestone,…
April 27, 2025 By Dean Moses Two suspects in the shooting of an off-duty cop in Long Island City on Sunday morning are now in custody after leading police on a wild pursuit across the borough. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the 25-year-old off-duty NYPD officer parked his green BMW along 43rd Avenue… Read more »